Nitun Kundu
Nitya Gopal Kundu (3 December 1935 – 15 September 2006) was a
Bangladeshi artist, sculptor and entrepreneur. He founded the
furniture company Otobi.[1]Contents1 Early life
2 Education and early career
3 Liberation War
4 Entrepreneur
5 Works
6 Awards and honors
7 ReferencesEarly life[edit]
Kundu was born in Dinajpur district to his parents Gnanendranath Kundu
and Binapani Kundu. He was the fourth among seven siblings
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Artists
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art,
practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both
everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual
arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business,
especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers
(less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a
variant used in English only in this context
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Notun KuriNotun Kuri (Bengali: নতুন কুঁড়ি, lit. 'New
Bud') is a Bangladeshi reality television competition series for child
artistes created by Mustafa Monwar.[1] The show debuted in 1966 which
ran on
Pakistan TelevisionPakistan Television from 1966 to 1971. After the independence
of Bangladesh, the competition was relaunched and ran on Bangladesh
Television from 1976 to 2006.[2] The name of the show comes from a
poem named "Kishor (Teenager)" by Golam Mostofa.
Judges[edit]Anil Kishon Sinha[3]Winners[edit]
Winners of the show were child artistes like Tarana Halim, Rumana
Rashid Ishita, Tarin Ahmed, Meher Afroz Shaon,
Sabrin Saka Meem and
Nusrat Imroz Tisha.[2][4]
Tamalika KarmakarTamalika Karmakar (dance)[5]
Mehbooba Mahnoor Chandni (dance)[6][self-published source?]
Samina Chowdhury (singing) 1977[7]References[edit]^ Faridur Reza Sagor (May 31, 2014)
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SAARC
The
South AsianSouth Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the
regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of
nations in South Asia. Its member states include Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives,
PakistanPakistan and Sri
Lanka. SAARC comprises 3% of the world's area, 21% of the world's
population and 3.8% (US$2.9 trillion)[3] of the global economy, as of
2015.
SAARC was founded in
DhakaDhaka on 8 December 1985.[4] Its secretariat is
based in Kathmandu, Nepal
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National Press Club (Bangladesh)
National Press Club is the professional club for journalists of
Bangladesh located in the capital Dhaka. The current president is
Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman.[1][2] The general secretary is Farida
Yasmin.[3][4]
History[edit]Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan visited the
Press Club in 1958[5]The National Press club was founded in 1954 as the East Pakistan Press
Club. It was formed to be run by an elected committee guided by its
rules and regulations. The Government of East Pakistan rented out a
building at 18 Topkhana Road at a monthly rent of Tk 100 to be used as
the press club headquarters.The building before 1947 was a residential
house of Dhaka University and was once residence to physicist
Satyendra Nath Bose.[6]
The first life member of the club was N. M. Khan who was chief
secretary of the provincial government. Mujibur Rahman Khan was the
first president of the club
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The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
The Daily Star is the largest circulating daily English-language
newspaper in Bangladesh.[1] Founded by Syed Mohammed Ali on 14 January
1991, as
BangladeshBangladesh transitioned and restored parliamentary democracy,
The Daily Star emerged as a leading and influential national newspaper
of record. The newspaper's position in
BangladeshBangladesh is comparable to
that of
The New York TimesThe New York Times in the United States and
The IndependentThe Independent in
the United Kingdom.[2][3]
Its motto, "Committed to People's Right to Know", appears on the above
the fold middle section of the front page. The newspaper is led by
Mahfuz Anam, a member of Mukti Bahini,[4] and former United Nations
official.[5] Its principal bureaus are located in
DhakaDhaka and
Chittagong, with several representatives abroad
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United States Information Agency
The
United States Information AgencyUnited States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953
to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy". In
1999, USIA's broadcasting functions were moved to the newly created
Broadcasting Board of Governors, and its exchange and non-broadcasting
information functions were given to the newly created Under Secretary
of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S.
Department of State. The agency was previously known overseas as the
United States Information Service (USIS).Contents1 Mission
2 Media and divisions2.1 Non-broadcast educational and information efforts3 Abolition and restructuring
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External linksMission[edit]The neutrality of this section is disputed. Relevant discussion may be
found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until
conditions to do so are met
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PaintersPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other
medium[1] to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly
applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as
knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.
PaintingPainting is a mode of creative expression, and can be done in numerous
forms. Drawing, gesture (as in gestural painting), composition,
narration (as in narrative art), or abstraction (as in abstract art),
among other aesthetic modes, may serve to manifest the expressive and
conceptual intention of the practitioner.[2] Paintings can be
naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape
painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in
Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism), or political in nature
(as in Artivism).
A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art
is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas
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